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T H E F UTU RE Technology has obviated many of the things we associated with taxis growing up: telephone numbers, street maps, physical money, interaction with the driver. Soon, it’s very likely drivers themselves will become obsolete. Thanks to advances in the programming of autonomous vehicles, it isn’t too farfetched to assume we’ll be passengers to robots in the near future. Many experts are predicting the first consumerready driverless taxis to be on the road by 2020, with one company sending a robo-taxi on pilot missions in Singapore as early as 2016. All the big names – Google,
Perhaps teleportation . n o i t a n i t s e d l a n is the fi Uber, General Motors – are in on the action too, so it’s just a matter of time. And so the circle is complete: from horse-drawn carriages to robo-cars. Or is it? Perhaps teleportation is the final destination.
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